Two-speed and automatic coaster and brake-hub.



PATBNTBD AUG. 1s, 1907.

C. NEWTON & P. E. BROWN.

TWO SPEED AND AUTOMATIC COASTER ANI) BRAKE'HUB.

APPLIGATION HLBDJUNB 9, 1904. RBNEWBD JULY 1.1907.

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UNITED sTATEs PATENT oEEioE.,

CHARLES NEWTON AND FRED E. BROWN, OF TORRINGTON, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNORS TO THE STANDARD SPOKE & NIPPLE COMPANY, OF TORRINGTON, CONNECTICUT, A CORPO- RATION OF MAINE.

TWO-SPEED AND AUTOMATIC COASTER AND BRAKE-HUB.

No. 863,425. Speeication of Letters Patent. Patented Aug. 13, 1907. Application tiled June 9, 1904, Serial No. 211,797. Renewed July 1,1907. Serial No. 381,736.

To all whom it may concern: brake member due to the ratchet teeth on sprocket and Be it known that We, CHARLES NEWTON and FRED brake ratchet collar. When the sprocket is again ro- 55 E. BROWN, citizens of the United States, residing at tated forwards, the brake shoe F Will be i'ieed from Torrington, in the county of Litchfield, State of Constationary brake member by the springs g.

5 necticut, have invented certain new and useiul Im- It will be seen, therefore, that we have a hub giving provenients in Two-Speed and Automatic Coasters a high speed, a low speed, an automatic coaster, and a and Brake-Hubs, of which the following is a descripbiake as in our former application, said hub retaining G tion, rel'erence being had to the accompanying drawmany ot' the advantages as set i'orth in the i'ormer appliing and to the letters and gures of reference marked cation, and having also other advantages peculiar to l0 thereon. this construction, such as providing a brake wholly Our invention relates to improvements in hubs for within the hub, said brake being operated directly bicycles, automobiles oi other self or power propelled from the sprocket, the stationary brake member being 65 vehicles, and in general is ofthe construction set forth secured to the stationary clutch member either as a in our application lor Letters Patent iiled of even date separate member, or as a part of said stationary clutch l herewith, Serial No. 211,795. member, both of said members being secured to a sta- Our invention is illustrated in the accompanying tionaiy pait of frame, thus relieving the axle oi any drawings, in which strain due to stationary clutch member or brake. 7 0

Figure l is a view in central longitudinal section; Fig. 2 is a side elevation of sprocket and brake ratchet 2() collar; and Fig. 3 is a perspective view oi' said brake mlheycoum' l. In a hub, the combination with the sprocket having lh@ LWO Speed and ne@ Wheel mechamsm 1S essen' a series of ratchet teeth on its inner face, a ratchet plate 75 tially the saine as that Of 0111' Olmei' appliCatiOn, C011- in mesh therewith and supported by the hub, a brake Sisting Of tile spl'OClet G' having all internal gear, the $11.06, i1 ball plate connected therewith, balls-between the pinions I meshing with sprocket and being supported sind Dl'm in@ hevllnlchlt pllelmflll a titiguufif" by Pins K7 having bemiugs m in hub A; 0f the Central ilsail'blited iii-incinvid 'lsliilistiiiiilidhs ildsribed S() i t i i gear Q, meshing' with pinons and being free to revolve 2. in a hun, the combination with nl@ sprocket having on Stationary 3X1@ R of the Clutch Sleeve Sy Surrounda series ot' ratchet teeth on its inner face, a ratchet plate ing Said Central gem., with Cuers q in slots between in mesh therewith, balls bearing against the rear laceot 00 i th) 11 TS U qnd V the Stationr C1 t h theratcliet plate, a plate carried by the hub and bearing Smm O L C0 a y u C against the balls, a brake shoe supported on pins passing' S5 mDlbCYTheld toastfliilonu'y Pil-ft 0f the imm@ through through a part ot the hub, springs surrounding said pins, ,5u-111 D7 and L11@ Shifting device, 0f which is Substan- :ind zi Stationary bi'zlke member against which the brake many as described and Claimed in the above named shoe bears when the sprocket is rotated backward; sill)- stantially as described. apphcauou 3. The combination with a hub havingl an outer wall, a 9() The featufes Whlch me novel 1n 13h15 lmprovement cylindrical portion forming a recess between the two, a Will DOW be described. sprocket having an inwardly projecting sleeve, with a The Objects of the improvement in addition to those ratchetplate on its inner tace, a ratchet plate surroundingl the cylindrical portion ot the hub, and in mesh with the O1Ourormerapphcauon met() plm/1de a' blah@ Wholly ratchet plate on the sprocket, a ball plate and balls, pins 95 Within the hub Operated du'ectly fl'on the Sprocket: passing through that portion o1' the hub which connects 40 the stationary brake member being secuied to a stathe outer wall to the cylindrical portion, a brake shoe tional-y pal-t of the imma carited Lbyusaid piln, ang p stationary cooperating member;

sn s an Aia y as (esci-i et. In the drmvmgs A leplesents the hub shu Whld? 1S et. The herein described brake mechanism, comprising l0() recessed at b to l'ecelve the brake mechamsms Whlch a hnbvhavingan outer wall and a cylindrical portion with are the prolonged end Oi sprocket G as at l, having a recess between the outer wall and the cylindrical poi'- ratchet teeth 2, which operate on correspondingratchet H011.. the'SiJl'OCket having the inolonsed end. extending teeth on brake Clutch conm, E7 Said make dutch Collar within said recess, a brake shoe iiiclosed within the hub,

and operative connections between the brake shoe and the Operatmg On bau platef through bans e" The brake sprocket whereby said brake shoe is operated by the member B being stationary it follows that if the brake sprocket when rotated baclnvardly, and a stationary meinsliOe F which revolves With the hub (lue t0 the pins h, ber against which the brake shoe operates, all said parts 50 be forced against Said stationary brake member7 the being inclosed within the hub; substantially as described.

A 5. The herein described brake mechanism, comprising hub Wlu be blaled O1 blought to 165i" 1f the splodet the hub, the sprocket supported thereby, and extending be revolved backwards as when backpedding, the within the wall of the hub, a brake shoe inclosed within brake shoe F Will be OlCed against the stationary the hub and operative connections between the brake shoe Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, iszand the sprocket whereby said brake shoe is operated by the sprocket when rotated backwardly, a change speed mechanism having as one of its elements a stationary clutch member, said brake mechanism including a stationary member' secured to the stationary clutch member o1 the change speed mechanism and against which the brake shoe operates, all Said parts beinginclosed Within the hub; substantially as described.

G. ln a device of the character described, a change speed mechanism including as one of its elements a stationary clutch member, a movable brake shoe and a stationary coperating brake member, secured to the In testimony whereof We afix our signatures, in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES NEWTON. FRED E. BROWN.

Witnesses S. R. SIIEPARD, E. L. FINN. 

